Involvement

"Emerson and Thoreau both learned from their experience as reformers that withdrawal of the good simply abandons the field to the evil."

"Emerson and Thoreau began with a philosophy of individual renewal of spirit and imagination, but they both came to understand that social justice would require more than private philosophizing: one had to take a principled stand and bring others along."

--Len Gougeon, Ph.D
University Of Scranton, Pennsylvania
From his Letter To The Editor, Harpers Magazine, August, 2006